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 * Name of article: Music of Brazil
 * Growing up my parents always listened to Brazilian music, music from their home country. So, it was not a surprise when I started listening to "music sertaneja", pagode, along with the other genres of music they listened too. I love Brazilian music, it gives the feeling of home, family, and warmth.

Lead evaluation
The lead contains an introductory sentence that captures the article's topic in an adequate way. The topic of the sentence is bolded which makes it clear to the reader what this article is about. A short, sweet sentence describes the article's major sections -arts, origins, types of music, and notable record labels of Brazilian music. All the information that is present in the lead is shown and explained in depth throughout the article. The lead is straight to the point, there is not too many details when it describes its sections.

Content evaluation
All the content goes hand-in-hand with Brazilian music, there are a variety of things that helps create and promote music; therefore, all of it is discussed in a concise manner.. Most of the article is up-ta-date, it lacks mentioning most artists that have grown their platform and gained tons of popularity over the past few years, which is understandable. I would argue that there is one genre of music that is missing from the article: Brazilian funk. Over the past decade it has started gaining popularity again. The article does a good job in providing details on historically underrepresented topics of Brazilian music, I learned of a few that I previously had never heard of.

Tone and balance evaluation
The article is neutral, there is no opinion of any of the contributors, it is all facts. No claims were heavily biased towards a certain position, it all was neutral. All viewpoints were well represented, none were not focused on nor dismissed. There appears to be no persuasion in the article, it contains little to no opinions, which help avoid the persuasion of its readers.

Sources and references evaluation
It seems like most of the facts are backed up with secondary sources, but it is hard to tell if a couple of the sources are reliable because one is a biography and another is from the latin music review. Those secondary sources could be opinionated at times and may not be reliable, a couple of the links appear to be out-dated as it will not bring me to the article that it's linked to. Most of the sources are thorough and give information on the music of Brazil, but I was not able to access all of them. The sources I was able to access most of them are current, but a few are from 1990's. Most of the sources have a single author, but the sources are all from different authors which give the references a diverse spectrum, historically marginalized individuals are included in some of the sources.

Organization evaluation
The article is extremely well written, it is very easy-to-follow and clear. There is information where needed and less information where it's not needed (eg the "Sambass" section is linked the wikipedia page on Sambass). This allows the reader to have access to more information on certain topics if they want it, but it is not necessary for the comprehension of the Music of Brazil. I only came across a few grammatical errors throughout the article, which I fixed. The article was well laid out, with main sections that split into smaller ones which all provided insight into the article's topic.

Images and media evaluation
The article includes a variety of pictures that help give the readers an idea of what that type of music is like and what instruments that are used. Some pictures of the most iconic artists of certain genres are also included. Most of the images are well captioned, a few have one word captions that could be expanded upon to give more insight without having to read the section the image accompanies. All of the images are linked and appear to follow Wikipedia's copyright regulations. Most of the images are laid out in an appealing way, some are not side-by-side of the section that represents it. If it were then it would be visually appealing and easier to follow.

Checking the talk page

 * Guiding questions


 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? Not sure what to say, I don't recall much about this

Talk page evaluation
There are a couple conversations going on about how to better represent a couple topics, but they don't go too much in depth. The article is listed as a level five vital article in arts and it is part of the C class. It is part of four WikiProjects: African Diaspora, Brazil/Arts, Latin music, and Regional and National Music. Wikipedia discusses this topic in a good way, but since it is an art there is slightly more opinions in it than facts.

Overall impressions

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 * What is the article's overall status?
 * What are the article's strengths?
 * How can the article be improved?
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed?

Overall evaluation
The articles overall status is very good I enjoy how neat, organized, and straight to the point it is. The article could be improved by having better captions of the pictures and having the images correlate to the sections of the article. Additionally, by adding the recently popular (popular for at least a few years) artists in certain genres of music. I would say the article as well developed obviously there's always room for improvement it provides insight and background to the genres different of music and the other components of the article.

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 * Link to feedback: Not sure what to do here. Should I leave the link to my evaluation on the talk page of the article and choose one of these guiding questions to post there or do I come up with my own question?